Automobile History :: Chevrolet

This DVD contains a variety of films exploring the history of General Motors - including a day in the life inf Chevrolet workers in the 1930's, General Motors milestone 50 millionth car rolling off the assembly line, General Motors during WWII, GM's idea of futurism and future products through various showcases in the 50s and early 60s and much more.

In the mid-1950's, the Jam Handy corporation made a series of films describing the innovative features of the new Chevrolets for the dealers to learn more about the cars they were selling. These films were labeled the Modern Engineering Series.

With the 1955 model year, Chevrolet commissioned the Jam Handy corporation to build a series of training films for the dealers to educate them on what is new in the 55 model year and what is the same as in prior years. Each film is presented as a narrated slide show.

With the 1956 model year, Chevrolet commissioned the Jam Handy corporation to build a series of training films for the dealers to educate them on what is new in the 56 model year and what is the same as in prior years. Each film is presented as a narrated slide show.

With the 1958 model year, Chevrolet commissioned the Jam Handy corporation to build a series of training films for the dealers to educate them on what is new in the 56 model year and what is the same as in prior years. Each film is presented as a narrated slide show.

This DVD contains several films created to help promote Chevrolet during the 40s to the early 60s. The films show many great Chevrolet's from those eras and show the evolution of the advertising messages used to reach consumers during these decades as competition in brands and models grew.

This DVD contains several films created by Jam Handy to help promote Chevrolet models in the 1930s. Since this was the big era of Disney animated films, many of the films loosely follow major Disney movies of that era. Four of the films are very well done fairy tales: Peg-Leg Pedro, The Princess and the Pauper, A Ride for Cinderella and a Coach for Cinderella. The fifth film, Down the Gasoline Trail, follows a drop of gasoline as it is used to make a Chevrolet run. This is truly a collection of films designed to delight Chevy enthusiasts of all ages.

This DVD contains several films in the Chevrolet Roads to Romance series. Chevrolet had these films created by Jam Handy to help promote Chevrolet models by showing people using their Chevrolets to take them to romantic places. In addition to beautiful scenery, they are an excellent homage to vintage Chevrolet models in the late 40s and early 50s. The 5 films have a total run time of 42 minutes.

This DVD contains several films created to help train and motivate Chevrolet salespeople from the 30s to the 50s. There is one file for each of the three decades. This will let you see the evolution of sales training for car dealers for the Chevrolet line of automobiles the the efforts Chevrolet was making to support their dealer network.

Chevrolet Advertising Films contains a variety of films from the 30's to the 50's and shows both advertising films and "behind the scenes" films that go into how the advertising films were made, how an advertising agency is used to sell Chevrolet and much more.

This video explores the trucks produced by Chevrolet in the 1950s through a series of seven films.

This series of five films takes a look at the models and features of the early 1950s Chevrolet automobiles.

This series of six films takes a look at the models and features of the 1953/1954 Chevrolet automobiles.

This series of seven films takes a look at the models and features of the1955 to 1958 Chevrolet automobiles.